In the wake of a report about the extent of philanthropic money given to education journalism, ethicists are discussing what the proper relationship between targeted money and journalism should look like. A new blog looking …
Ethics of robot journalism: How Automated Insights poses issues for data collection and writing
Algorithm journalism is now available for everyone. A beta Wordsmith, a program that creates journalism from data, was made available on the parent company’s website Tuesday morning, the company announced. But, one of the world’s …
Ethics in the News Oct. 13
A journalism ethics summit themed on traumatic event reporting is scheduled for Oct. 27 at the Center for Ethics in Journalism at the University of Arkansas. The summit, “Take Care of Yourself: an introduction to …
Rezaian Conviction: How to Protect Journos with Dual Citizenship
News editors need to think more carefully — ahead of time — about how they plan to protect these journalists, should their citizenship get them into trouble. Far too often the strategy for handling this persecution is reactive instead of proactive.
Ethics in the News Oct. 6
The deadly campus shooting Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that left 10 dead and others injured conjured up familiar ethics debates about reporting in post-tragedy environments. Notably, conversation circulated around the naming …
Why we need a radical new framework for media ethics
In “Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach” I declare that the only way to rescue media ethics from sinking into oblivion is to think radically. Let me explain. We need to rethink the basis of …
Ethics in the News
Brian Williams started Monday at an anchor desk at MSNBC. It’s his first on-camera job since his suspension and later removal from the NBC evening news desk for ethical violations. Williams’ return has been mostly …
Charlie Hebdo Controversy Raises Ethical Questions on a Global Scale
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is notorious for causing controversy. Long before the January 2015 attack on the publication’s journalists, cartoonists were raising eyebrows with images that some people found to be distasteful at …
Sensationalism or a Call to Action: Covering the Syrian Refugee Crisis
I met a Syrian refugee this June. Sitting across from me in a crowded Beirut café, the young man told me how he’d escaped from Syria and started working as a news fixer in Lebanon—arranging …
Getting Bruce Jenner Right
I grew up with Bruce Jenner in my cabinet. Just 10 when he became known to many as the “greatest athlete in the world,” I knew him as the face and the form on my …